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  • #52
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Humphrey BoaGart wrote: »
    Trolling will be recognised as a profession. :pac:

    It already is.

    Trolls like 'Jimbo James Robbo' and 'A Thoughtful Man' are giving seminars on trolling in the UK.


  • #53
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The pension and social welfare crisis will reach a head in 2030 and Europe will be plunged into a period of increased turmoil.

    Long before that, every country will have massive yellow vest protests as millions of low-skileld workers begin to get replaced by the 'bots. Add in millions pouring into the EU from economic migration over the next 5/10yrs.

    UBI payments will be introduced - electronic only and so it can't be spent on booze, fags, luxury goods or casinos. Payments can only be made by RFID tags embedded into your right hand coupled with iris scans.

    While the 10% will get richer (and live in gated 'new towns'), the other 90% get poorer.

    China will be the only exception having conquered the seven seas, the moon and Mars for mining and gas (low-cost fusion energy) extractions. China will also ban religions and the worship of false idols such as the cardigan ladies.


  • #54
    rgodard80a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭rgodard80a


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    You guys are way optimistic.

    Yeah, there's a famous quote "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run," coined by Roy Amara, past president of The Institute for the Future.

    So the PC was invented in 1980 (ish) but look they can do now after 30 years when twinned with the internet.

    It would be great to see the advent of stable reliable fusion power in my lifetime, but not clear when.

    We are still very primitive in the field of biotechnology.
    Performing surgery with scalpels, amputations, skin grafts from other parts of the body etc will all seem terribly backward.

    When we have full control over human DNA then we can cure all known diseases, regrow limbs, enhance human sensory organs, even add new senses like infra-red vision.


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